The old masters and their pictures, for the use of schools and learners in art; (1905)
Tytler, Sarah, 1827-1914 · Boston Little, Brown, and company · leaf 250
the bestpart of the work; but it is not well to consider as athing of small account the painters language in whichthat feeling is conveyed ; for if that language be notgood and lovely, the man may indeed be a just moral-ist or a great poet, but he is not a painter, and it waswrong of him to paint.*… … z D 13 Q Paul Veroneses Drawing 209 ficient in a sense of suitability and probability. He,of all painters, carried to an outrageous extent thepractice, which I have defended in some degree, ofpainting sacred and historical subjects as if theyhad happened in his own day and city. He violatedtaste…
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